What are emojis in VK. All smileys Emoji codes, symbols, meanings

Emoticons have become such a part of our lives that without them the alphabet looks incomplete, and messages seem dry and distant. But even such a frivolous and childishly simple task as arranging emojis has its own subtleties.

What do different emoticons mean?

With object emoticons, everything is simple: they mean what they represent. A ball is a ball, an alarm clock is an alarm clock, and there’s nothing to think about. But with face emoticons the task becomes more complicated. We are not always able to correctly guess emotions from the faces of living people, let alone the faces of koloboks. There are emoticons whose meaning is obvious:

Fun, laughter, joy, rejoicing.

Sadness, melancholy, melancholy, dissatisfaction.

Playful mood, teasing.

Surprise, amazement, shock, fear.

Anger, resentment, rage.

And several more similar ones - all possible options for families and romantic unions.

But among the emoticons there are also those whose meaning can be interpreted ambiguously, or even be completely confusing:

This emoticon depicts a person sobbing in three - well, in two - streams, however, in the version for Apple devices, due to raised eyebrows and a mouth that is not distorted from sobs, he is often perceived as laughing to the point of tears. Be careful with them: you want to indicate grief to them, but they will misunderstand you.

This emoticon is intended to represent silence. Instead, he just scares you to death.

If everything is more or less clear with the evil devil (“angry as hell”), then the cheerful devil is somewhat puzzling. Most likely, he is not only furious, but also looking forward to dancing on your opponent’s grave. But you, perhaps, just wanted to show originality and an unusual smiley.

Despite the fact that the three wise monkeys did not see, hear or speak anything precisely because of their wisdom, these muzzles cover their eyes, mouth and ears in shame, confusion and shock.

A set of cat emoticons for those who consider ordinary koloboks to be insufficiently expressive and want to add sweetness to their emotions.

Instead of “hello” and “bye,” you can wave your hand.

Raised hands, a gesture of joyful greeting or jubilation.

The applause is both sincere and sarcastic.

If in this picture you see hands folded in a prayer gesture, then for you the emoji may mean “thank you” or “I beg you.” Well, if you see a high-five happening here, it means you are a very cheerful person.

A raised index finger can emphasize the importance of a message or express a request to interrupt the interlocutor with a question, or it can simply indicate a previous message in the chat.

Fingers crossed for luck.

For some it’s “stop”, but for others it’s “high five!”

No, it's not a truffle. Not even a truffle at all.

Ogre and Japanese goblin. Looks like someone is missing the usual devils.

Liar. His nose grows like Pinocchio's every time he lies.

These are eyes wide with amazement, and the darting eyes of a scoundrel, and even a lustful look. If someone sends you such an emoticon in a comment to a photo, you can be sure that the photo is good.

And it's just an eye, and it's watching you.

New moon and full moon. It seems like nothing special, but these emoticons have their fans who value them for their creepy facial expressions.

A very common girl in purple. Her gestures mean OK (arms above head), “no” (arms crossed), “hello” or “I know the answer” (arm raised up). This character has another pose that confuses many - . According to the official version, it symbolizes a help desk employee. Apparently, she is showing with her hand how to get to the city library.

Do you also see two tense faces here, presumably in an unfriendly mood? But they didn’t guess: according to Apple’s hints, this is an embarrassed face and a stubborn face. Who would have thought!

By the way, you can see hints for emoticons in the message window on if you open an emoji and hover over the emoticon you are interested in. Like this:

Another way to find out the meaning of an emoticon is to turn to emojipedia.org for help. On it you will find not only detailed interpretations of emoticons, but you can also see how the same emoticon looks on different platforms. Many unexpected discoveries await you.

Where are emoticons appropriate?

1. In informal friendly correspondence

Funny yellow faces are appropriate in a personal chat, where you share not so much information as your mood. With the help of emoticons, you will laugh at a joke, sympathize, and make faces at each other. This is where emotions belong.

2. When emotions splash over the edge and there are not enough words

Sometimes, when something very important happens in our lives, we are so overwhelmed with feelings that we are about to burst. Then we write an emotional post on Facebook or post a dazzling photo on Instagram and decorate it with a generous scattering of emoticons. Some people, of course, won’t like this, but what now, stifling all the bright sensations in yourself? The main thing is not to overuse such public displays of violent emotions: this will alienate subscribers and call into question your adequacy.

3. By agreement, to highlight messages in work correspondence

This is a very simple and convenient way to make important messages that require an urgent response visible. For example, great for these purposes. But you need to agree in advance which cases are considered urgent in your company and what emoticon you will use for this.

It’s important not to overdo it: if you have one emoticon for messages about emergency situations, a second for urgent issues, a third for important news, then soon all your work correspondence will turn into a New Year’s garland that no one looks at.

When is it better to do without emoticons?

1. In business correspondence

Work is no place for emotions. Here you are required to be calm, collected and professional. Even if you want to emphasize your friendliness or express concern about a situation, use , not emoticons, for these purposes.

2. When communicating with foreigners

This is especially true for gesture emoticons. For example, the person you wanted to express approval of will put an end to your good relationship with a person from Greece or Thailand. Of course, with this gesture you sent him to hell.

Therefore, if you are not confident in your deep knowledge of the peculiarities of the national culture of your interlocutor, do not take risks.

3. Oddly enough, when you discuss feelings and emotions

Feelings are a serious matter. If you are not just chatting, but revealing your soul or sharing something important, words will convey your feelings and experiences much more accurately than emoticons. “You are dearer to me than anyone in the world” means much more than ten hearts in a row. In the end, you only have one heart, so give it away.

Remember that emojis are a seasoning, not the main ingredient. You only need a small amount to add punch to your message.

Emoji language

Judging by the fact that today almost no personal correspondence is complete without emoticons, we can safely say that emoji have become an independent section of the language. Sometimes they even pretend to replace language: you can write an entire message using only emoticons. In the popular American TV show Ellen DeGeneres there is even a special section in which guests are invited to read a phrase where some of the words are replaced with emoji:

And here the name of the film is encrypted, which we invite you to guess.

Hello dear site readers! In my opinion, today it is difficult to imagine full-fledged communication using emails and social networks without emoticons.

They are needed to create the effect of real-time communication, to convey emotions that are difficult to express with some kind of formal bracket.

The term " emoji" (emoji = picture + sign) actually came to us from Japan, where these symbols were originally used.

After adding a number of them to Unicode, other countries gained access.

VKontakte emoticon codes

Of course, every registered user has the ability to add numerous emoticons in messages. True, their classification is not very convenient; you have to look through all the tabs to choose the right option.

Thanks to one of the communities, you can find and use emoticons presented in a detailed catalog.

Just select the category you are interested in and get a list of emoji codes.

How to put emoticons in contact? To do this, you can find a training video in the group - https://vk.com/topic-42154384_28654153.

The bottom line is to copy the code in the usual way (select an area and use the combination Ctrl+C or just right-click and select “Copy”) and paste it into the desired field (Ctrl+V, “Paste”).

Please note that the underscore must be removed, otherwise the code will not work.

Special applications for adding VKontakte emoticons

To make our task easier, developers of various applications have already worked on creating a convenient system for adding emoji emoticons.

With their help, you can easily find the desired sign and simply copy it using the same analogy. There is no need to remove anything additional from the row of symbols - there is only graphic symbolism here.

Let's take for example a popular application for Google Chrome - Emoji Input. By adding it to yourself, in just a few seconds you will have access to the same symbols using the corresponding button.

To add an emoticon, select the one you want and it will appear in the line just below.

From here, the icon can be easily copied - it is no longer a series of different printed characters, but symbolism that is understandable only to this system. For us, the task only becomes easier.

Further more. If you are already bored with such standard emoticons and want something new and creative, try to surprise your friends using the same Google Chrome extension specifically for VK - EmojiPlus.

With this program you can expand your palette of emoticons and stickers. What’s especially nice is that no additional payment is required, you don’t need to buy anything in the store.

Just add the application and chat with pleasure.

Applications do not conflict with each other and do not take up large amounts of virtual memory space on devices. Therefore, I advise you to take a closer look at the next option.

What are the advantages - the pictures are larger and more colorful, you can access them using the yellow smiley on the side and not lose the last ones you used.

Currently the maximum available is 256 stickers.

The only thing that is a little inconvenient is that you get a bunch of “smiles”; if you need to add smiles or stickers to the wall, you will have to get the hang of it a little, but this is not a problem. Some apps mirror each other in terms of emoji and sticker selections.

True, application developers are working harder and harder to create new content, realizing the urgent need for this kind of “transmitters” of information.

Pavel Durov and his team regularly hold a competition, as a result of which a new creator of stickers and emoticons for VK begins to work on something new.

Available sticker groups are managed in the store; just click on its icon and you will be able to disable unnecessary groups.

In my opinion, it’s simply beautiful - here are just a couple of such categories - these are well-known cartoon characters (Soviet and foreign), VK gifts, all kinds of trolls, thematic groups - Halloween, Maslenitsa, New Year, Victory Day, Japanese cartoons, nesting dolls and many -a lot others.

My advice is better not to use everything at once, weed out what is unnecessary, otherwise you can simply get lost in this abundance of pictures. After all, when virtually exchanging emoticons, a quick and immediate reaction is much more interesting, so the conversation takes on an “online” character.

And this is already a kind of art - to find a suitable image in time and react in accordance with the situation.

To add to the wall or in messages, you can select the “send sticker + text” function if comments are needed.

This option is perfect for posting a post on a wall – it’s just that a picture is unlikely to convey clear information. But for commenting on news, such stickers are just a godsend.

Without this clarification, the picture is simply published instantly with a single click.

In general, just look in the Google Store and you will find more than one extension or application (VKontakte Stickers, for example).

So, follow the link https://chrome.google.com/webstore, enter the name of the application in the search engine - “VKontakte Stickers” and add the application using the standard algorithm - and this is always very simple and fast.

Moreover, you can adjust the size of emoticons in the Store - leave them large or reduce them for convenience.

For example, too large pictures on the wall look bulky and take up extra space. A smaller copy will not be so striking, but this will not lose its colorfulness and expressiveness.

Another unusual application - rather for lovers of Japanese culture - using " vk.Kaomoji» You can send special text emoticons to your friends. See for yourself.

An icon in the form of the letter “K” appears, at the bottom there are Settings - you can select the category of emotions that suits your mood or message.

The last used emoticons will be waiting for you in the nearest access.

In general, every self-respecting browser has appropriate extensions that allow you to access a wide selection of emoticons for VK. Take your time and check which ones are suitable for your specific one.

Let's look at other sites. For example, on http://vkplugin.ru/ You can download a free program or pay attention to Trollbar.

These applications are very easy to install and use. The latest application is intended not only for use in VK, but also in other popular communities and social networks - for example, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, MoiMir.

For those who want to receive the latest news from the world of stickers, there is a special VKontakte group - https://vk.com/halyava_stiker. Here you can learn how to install emoticons and pictures for your browser and never miss out on new items.

Or here’s another community dedicated to issues of working with the plugin “ addStickers" True, it only works with those stickers that you have already purchased.

In general, look at what is already in VK itself - why reinvent the wheel twice when they have already done it for you?

Here you will find many communities dedicated to emoticon codes and installing stickers. Live communication always helps better understand the nuances of working with material that is still unfamiliar.

Whatever you use, I think each of these tips will help you color your messages and make a solid wall of text colorful and emotional.

Please your friends and family with funny pictures. By the way, using only emoticons, you can “write” a whole story or express your feelings more vividly. So go ahead and show your creativity.

A database of emoticons that can be used in various communication services and on various web pages. You can copy any emoticon and paste it into an e-mail message, VKontakte, Twitter or Facebook - it will appear in all these services and will have the same meaning. In this case, it does not matter from which device it was sent.

Please note that the display of icons depends on the operating systems, browsers and communication services you use. Read more about this below.

Emoticon categories:

How do Emoji differ from regular emoticons?

Emoji is a language of ideograms and emoticons that can be displayed both in a separate text message and on a web page. Emoji is part of Unicode, which allows you to copy the emoticon code to the clipboard and paste it into a messenger or social network message, into an e-mail or on a forum. In this case, the symbol will be visible everywhere and will have the same meaning. And it doesn’t matter what device it was sent from.

Initially, Emoji were exclusively available to smartphone users living in Japan. They were invented by a programmer of the Japanese mobile operator NTT docomo Shigetaka Kurita. He saw that users often draw faces using brackets, quotes and dashes to express emotions, and decided to replace them with pictograms.

The Western world first noticed Japanese icons in 2011, when Apple included them in the keyboard on devices with iOS 5. At the same time, Emoji were included in Unicode.

Emoji display issues

Depending on operating systems, browsers and communication services, emoji emoticons.

Since most sites use UTF-8 encoding, it is possible that you will see empty squares instead of emoticons. However, recently browser developers have been solving this problem. The latest version of the web browser displays Emoji most correctly. Support for Japanese icons is also implemented in the updated . Most emoticons support , and . But for users of Internet navigators, we do not recommend actively communicating using Emoji - you will not see at least 60% of what you send or receive.

The OS version also matters. Windows 10 displays more emojis than Windows 8, and version 7 has even fewer. In XP they are not supported at all. It’s interesting that in versions 8 and 10 of Microsoft’s operating system, most of them are already integrated into, but it’s not very convenient to use.

Incomplete implementation in instant messengers and social networks

Many emoji emoticons are integrated into Hangouts and VKontakte, but this integration is incomplete - if you can insert such an icon into a VKontakte message, then the question is:

An emoticon is a set of symbols, or icon, that is a visual representation of a facial expression or body position to convey a mood, attitude, or emotion, originally used in email and text messages. The most famous is the smiling face emoji, i.e. smile - :-) .

There is no clear and reliable evidence about who invented the emoticon. Of course, you can point to ancient excavations, finds of various inscriptions on rocks, etc., but these will only be guesses from each of us.

Of course, to say for sure that the emoticon is a modern invention is a little wrong. The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century. Examples of their use can be found in a copy of the American magazine "Puck" from 1881, see example:

Yes, there are a lot of such examples in history, but it is generally accepted that a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, Scott Fahlman, was responsible for the first digital type of emoticon. He suggested distinguishing serious messages from frivolous ones by using emoticons :-) and :-(. This was all the way back on September 19, 1982. This is especially useful when the sentiment of your message can be misinterpreted.

YES, BUT YOU NEVER ARRIVE ON TIME, ANYWAY.

YES, BUT YOU NEVER ARRIVE ON TIME, ANYWAY. ;-)

However, emoticons did not become so popular, but revealed their potential 14 years later, thanks to a Frenchman who lived in London - Nicolas Laufrani. The idea arose even earlier, from Nicolas’s father, Franklin Laufrani. It was he who, as a journalist for the French newspaper France Soir, published an article on January 1, 1972, under the heading “Take time to smile!”, where he used emoticons to highlight his article. Later he patented it as a trademark and created the production of some products using the smiley. Then a company was created under the brand name Smiley, where father Franklin Loufrani became president, and son Nicolas Loufrani became general director.

It was Nicolas who noticed the popularity of ASCII emoticons, which were widely used on mobile phones, and began developing directly animated emoticons that would correspond to ASCII emoticons consisting of simple characters, i.e. what we now use and are accustomed to calling - smiley. He created a catalog of emoticons, which he divided into categories “Emotions”, “Holidays”, “Food”, etc. And in 1997, this catalog was registered with the US Copyright Office.

Around the same time in Japan, Shigetaka Kurita began designing emoticons for I-mode. But unfortunately, the widespread use of this project never happened. Maybe because in 2001, Laufrani's creations were licensed by Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and other mobile phone manufacturers, who later began offering them to their users. After that, the world was simply overwhelmed with various interpretations of emoticons and emoticons.

The following variations with smaliks and emoticons became the appearance stickers in 2011. They were created by the leading Internet company from Korea - Naver. The company has developed a messaging platform called - Line. A similar messaging application like WhatsApp. LINE was developed in the months following the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Initially, LIne was created to find friends and relatives during and after natural disasters and in the first year, the number of users grew to 50 million. Afterwards, with the publication of games and stickers, there were already more than 400 million, which later became one one of the most popular apps in Japan, particularly among teenagers.

Emoticons, emoticons and stickers today, after more than 30 years, they have definitely begun to occupy a place in people’s everyday conversations and correspondence. According to research conducted in the United States, it was found that 74 percent of people in the United States regularly use stickers and emoticons in their online communications, sending an average of 96 emoticons or stickers per day. The reason for this explosion in use Emoji is that the creative characters developed by various companies help to express our feelings, help to add humor, sadness, happiness, etc.

The emoticons in the tables will be gradually replenished, so go to the site and look for the meaning of the desired emoticons.